Saturday, October 15, 2016

Copying another artist work doesn't always go well. I didn't copy her work per say but a technique she used. I'm talking about Dyan Reaveley, and her use of the journal block. I don't have one but I make my own copy but cutting a manila folder as a template In Dyan's journal, she cuts the borders of a couple of pages with the block in graduating lengths.

As you can see I tried to be clever and didn't cut each page the same. There really isn't any theme to each page, I just let my muse take over.

On this page I think I mainly used Tim Holtz distressed paints, twisted citron, fossilized amber, and mustard seed, and salty ocean. I used the butterfly stencil from Faber-Castell. Doodled with black and white Pitt pens. I also used some ordinary acrylic paints.

On this page the background is in Tim Holtz distress spray stain, cracked pistachio, mermaid lagoon, and abandoned coral. The pages didn't have a gesso prime on them so the sprays really absorbed into the paper. I also used Faber-Castell gelatos, blood orange from the Diner collection. To color in the branches and leaves, I used a brown Pitt pen, white and green gelly pens.

This is my favorite page with the background of Faber-Castell gelatos metallic(silver ice, iced rose, and squid ink) and Ranger's yellow liquid pearls. For the ocean, I used various markers too. I need to write these down while I'm creating! I drew the fishing boat and the birds with a black Pitt pen. I love this page that I didn't have the heart to write on it.

This page was in honor of the Great American Brew Festival that is held every year in Denver, Colorado. I cut out images from a post card for GABF and their logo from the Internet. I had some business cards and stickers from those breweries and bottle caps lying around. I can't remember what I use for the background but I do know I used white gesso to prime the pages. I used Tim Holtz Ideology rubs, which I came to realize I don't like using them. It's really difficult to get the imaged rubbed right. I stenciled the GABF with individual letters. Stamped with clear stamps from Inkadinkado. The stamps were on sale from the planner aisle at Michaels.

It turned out pretty good for trying our something new. I'm still new to art journaling so I try to keep track of the art supplies I used.

Monday, October 3, 2016

Last August I went on holiday to the UK and one of the excursions was to York. One of the places we went to was the York Brewery. I wanted something that would say brewery to me so I decided to make a beer barrel.

I sorry but I didn't write down what paints I used, I'm still new at this and forget the details. I mixed together a few colors of acrylic paints together to get the right color I wanted for my barrel. I had a 4 pack bottle carrier that had the York Brewery logo on it so I cut it out and glued it on the barrel.

The next page I tried to make a beer that I drank there, Imperial Stout on cask. I like looking past the glass and only seeing the beer. I'm still not happy with it...
I didn't want to write on it so I taped a York Brewery coaster on the edge of the page and wrote on that.

About Me

I am a feature writer for Barley's Angels Colorado and a blogger, "the colorado beer scribe" is a blog about the local businesses focusing on the Colorado beer scene; restaurants, breweries, brewpubs,and tap houses. I also blog about science fiction and fantasy, The Sci-fi Fantasy Readers Review and about beginning art journaling. I take most of the photos with an iPhone. the colorado beer scribe is also on Facebook.
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